She was going to dream about pink stuff, seriously.

"D-did you call me?" the pink-haired boy that was standing in front of her, with one of his earbuds that he originally had plugged in his ear now off in order to be able to hear her.

"Uh…yes, Hi" she greeted him not actually knowing how to greet such a…

Interesting person.

"Hi, I'm Natsu" he half-smiled to her while pointing to himself with his index finger, "C-can I ask for your name?" he asked noticing that she wasn't saying anything.

Well, actually, she wasn't even breathing when she saw his cheeks getting slightly pink.

"Y-yes! Oh my Mavis, I'm sorry, where are my manners?" she apologized, "I'm Lucy, Lucy Heartfilia" She replied while smiling at him.

"It is very nice to meet you, Lucy Heartfilia" he said, extending his hand. Lucy noticed the way he was greeting her, making her giggle a little bit.

"It is very nice too meet you too, Natsu Dragneel" His eyes went wide for a second.

"Oh, but I didn't tell Lucy my second name" he said, maybe more to himself. His father started laughing.

Lucy couldn't help but laugh too…

"Maybe a little dummy is better" She thought, "The teacher said you whole name, Natsu, I just wanted to know how you look like" She could see his mouth forming an small "O"

"Well this is how I look like" he said with his cheeks a little pinky, "I hope we get along w-well" He murmured, eyes looking at the floor, but Lucy could hear him very clearly, and couldn't help but smile at him.

"Oh I'm sure we will!" She cheered, her cheeks a little pinky too.

After a few seconds of just staring at each other in a rather soft and kind silent, the teacher started:

"Aye, aye, lovebirds, you can go and stare at yourselfs later, but we have to finish all the rules before the period ends so, shoo shoo" he said while grinning goofily at her, making her blush, "Oh, do you mind Natsu sitting next to you?" He asked, his eyes on his son.

"Oh sure! I don't mind" She said, and to be honest, she was happy with the idea of Natsu sitting next to her.

Just one problem.

She turned her head to face the guy she had as a neighbor... the guy looked quite…

Terrifying.

"H-h-he has piercing! All over his face!" Lucy thought, "I didn't know Fairy High accepted this kind of-of...personalities!" She tried her best not to look scared, she knows by heart that she should never, ever, judge anyone by their appearances...but still….

"Hey, Gajeel" she heard Natsu's voice again, making her eyes to automatically lock on him, "Please?" He asked.

Lucy didn't know what, of the two things that happened in that very moment, were worse.

The fact that Natsu actually knew the guy.

Or the fact that the guy just stood and moved to Natsu's chair while murmuring a silent, "Sure thing man"

The class began afterwards like nothing absolutely incredible happened.

"Hey" Lucy couldn't stand the urge to ask him, so she tapped his shoulder, and when he moved his head towards her, he immediately blushed.

"L-luuucy-san" He whispered back, "You can't ask me anything, r-remember?" He reminded her, and then looked away, facing the windows.

She realized two thing in that moment.

One: Natsu loves the sky, and most of the time, he is looking at it with dreamful eyes

And two: She wanted Natsu in her other periods too, just as much as she wanted her other friends...

Or maybe, just maybe...a little bit more.

…

The teacher finished giving his rules and gave them free time until the period ended.

This was her opportunity.

"Hey, Natsu~" she called him with a girly tone, not wanting him to take his attention away from her.

As if that was an option.

"Y-yes, Lucy-san?" he replied immediately.

"How do you know uhm...Gazeel-kun?" he asked him and waited patiently for his reply.

"It's Gajeel, not Gazeel" Another voice came from behind her.

"S-s-sorry! I didn't mean to-"

"L-Lucy-san calm down!" the pink-haired boy said, "Gajeel does not bites, I swear!

She didn't know why, but the way he talked to her made her feel...relaxed.

Maybe she was getting used to Gray's bad attitude…

Yeah.

"Sorry for scaring ya" Gajeel apologized and took a sit next to Natsu, "I'm Gajeel Redfox, this idiot here is my cousin and best friend" he said, hugging him in a...manly way?

"Who...who are you calling 'idiot' you...you" His cheeks grew red as he tried to look for an insult…

Lucy leaned towards Natsu and whispered something to his ear.

"You metalface!" She laughed as Gajeel got mad.

"It's not fair! You have your little girlfriend helping you with your lack of brain!" Both Natsu and Lucy blushed hard and stared at each other for awhile…

And the next thing they knew they were laughing. Pretty hard actually. Natsu with his hands on his stomach and Lucy hitting her table.

Gajeel was still there, looking at them with wide eyes, "What...just happened?" He asked rubbing his eyes with his hands.

"It's called love, young man" Gildarts responded to his questions, making Natsu and Lucy red again...this time a little bit harder, "So, Lucy, how do like my boy?" He asked, raising an eyebrow while checking out his son's cheeks growing red.

"L-Lucy-san you don't have to-"

"I have to say that at the beginning, the only thing I knew about him was this weird nickname…'Pyro'" She placed the palm of her hand on one of his cheek when she noticed Natsu cringing at the nickname, "But we don't wanna talk about that, am I right?" She asked him, Natsu nodding in agreement while accepting her warm hand, tilting his head a little to the side too feel her more.

Lucy couldn't help but blush and smile.

"And I pretty much like him so far" She confessed, still smiling, "He's cute and I know I don't really know anything about him but that just makes things funnier...right?" Natsu nodded, her hand now rubbing his cheek slowly and carefully, "And I really wanna get to know him" She confessed again, her cheeks turning red instead of just pink, "And I was wondering…" She locked her eyes on Natsu's onyx orbs "IfNatsufeltthesameway?" It was quiet for a second, making Lucy worry.

"Maybe I'm pushing too hard…" She thought, and she started to feel bad.

Well of course, Natsu's a shy boy and so she is! And on the top of that, they only knew each other for, like, 30 minutes and there she was, standing in front of him, freaking him out with weird questions…

Why is her hand still on his cheek!?

She could see his lips forming a simple line, and even though they were curving up it didn't matter because she already fucked up pretty bad and now he was going to think of her as some kind of desperate woman and, oh god he is smiling at her, and-

"But of course I would like to know everything about Lucy-san" He killed his thoughts…, his eyes went wide after realising what he said, "But only if Lucy-san is okay with that" He completed, raising his index finger to the air as if it was some kind of condition.

She giggled at him and took his index finger with her index finger.

"I'm more than okay with that"